Ocasio-Cortez is allied with and endorsed by
Cynthia Nixon
, who is Gov.
Andrew Cuomo's
September primary election challenger. Nixon, best known as a "Sex And The City" television star and education activist, trails the governor from New Castle in recent political opinion polls, yet is closing the gap among the Empire State's youngest voters,
according to this report by Daily Voice.

Ocasio-Cortez was interviewed by
Chris Cuomo on CNN
on Wednesday Aug. 8, the day after two of the six candidates she endorsed in Tuesday's primary elections lost. "Americans have the 'sticker shock' of healthcare as it is" when they make their monthly federally-mandated insurance premium payments or get penalized when filing taxes in April.

On the "Cuomo Prime Time" broadcast, Ocasio-Cortez asked why the U.S. can pay for "unlimited war" but not "Medicaid-for-all" or education,
as reported here.

Some pundits call Ocasio-Cortez -- "the Bronx girl" who actually grew up in Westchester County -- a bellwether for polling trends in close elections statewide and nationwide.